First, how'd you cope with the time change (if you are in one of the primitive areas that thinks the time on the clock actually controls how people behave)? Me? I got up at 8:00 instead of 7:00. What earthly difference does it make?
And then I chose to spend most of the day in bed. Working, but still in bed. And the work is to upload the first few chapters of Bob's Memoir: 4,000 Years as a Free Demon. The story will begin on Wednesday, March 16 here on SOL. It will release on Bookapy on Tuesday.
The total work is divided into three volumes, "Before Caesar (Mostly)", "After Caesar (Mostly)", and "Escape from Planet of the Humans" or some alternate title I have not yet devised. So Wednesday starts Volume One. I say "Before Caesar (Mostly)" because Bob has a tendency to jump around, like many memoirs do. He talks about things as he remembers them and while he starts out with a flow of history, he gets more and more carried away with other things that he's reminded of. So, of course his voyage with Columbus is in the BC volume. Live with it.
For a first posting, I've uploaded the Prologue (Don't miss it. It's part of the story.) And the first two chapters of Part I: In the Beginning. I had to divide this into parts in order to keep some semblance of order to Bob's meanderings. I'll post Part I in two chunks of two chapters each, because they are shorter chapters than the rest of the book. After all, Bob is trying to remember things from 4,000 years ago. Try that before you criticize him.
Thereafter, I'll post a chapter every three days like most of my stories. Volume 1 is 21 chapters (divided into five parts) and three days after it finishes, I'll post the prologue and first chapter of Volume 2. There won't be a break in the story overall.
I discovered that authors are no longer allowed turn off voting. Not real happy with that, but it's part of the site that we live with. It's not really run for the author's benefit, but for the readers'.
rant--Which brings me to an issue I've had with the supposed giant of eBook distribution in trying to get Bob released. I distribute through several channels but the giant objected to my content because it had been previously published by someone else. They were singularly unhelpful in specifying exactly what content or where it had been published.
I finally played a guessing game, and since the eBook version has illustrations for each Part, I contacted my stock photo supplier, got a copy of their terms and conditions, got a screenshot of all my downloads under that license, and a copy of my monthly receipts for the past six months. Then I got a note saying it would be published. No other explanation.
That's an item that I object to. Not the lack of explanation--they can choose to carry my book or not. But this behemoth has adopted the title of "Publisher." They aren't my publisher! They're a fricking online bookstore. My books are published by Elder Road Books, the exclusive publisher who grants a license to sell my books or otherwise distribute them. I own the copyright, the ISBN, and all the associated creative files. In addition to being the author.
I'm just thankful that they dropped the demand that I prove that I am me. Excuse the rant, but I wasted six days trying to get this straightened out for a company that accounts for less than 10% of my eBook sales. I nearly pulled all my books from it.--end rant
Well, I hope you are all staying well and that spring is alleviating some of the seasonal affective disorder as it is doing for me. Now, I just contend with allergies. I'll be making another trip to Seattle in the next few days, but I'm continuing to write and produce pages of words for your reading pleasure.
Enjoy!